Apropos of nothing, I'm heartened by the degree to which huge swaths of communities I'm attached to (thinking #lawfedi / #legal, #technology, #policy, #podcast, etc.) have seemingly rejected the siren call of going all-in on #Threads as a Twitter/X replacement.
I know many have been sailing under their own flag for quite some time, but we're hurdling towards two years and it feels like something that can persist.
Threads is giving young Taiwanese activists a space to connect and mobilize, reports @restofworld, drawing in 1.88 million active monthly users — the fourth highest user base globally behind the U.S., Japan and Brazil, despite having a much smaller population.
It continues: “Protestors have been using a range of apps, including Facebook, Line, and Discord, to coordinate the leaderless protests, but many have found Threads to be the most effective in connecting with people outside their own social circles.” But with Meta promising to cut down on political content across its apps, how long will Threads be willing to host their activism?
My biggest #gripe with #Mastodon is reach and the ability to discover stuff outside of chronological scrolling. Lists in #BlueSky make that better. Imho the algorithms in #Threads are too intrusive.
If there were simpler ways to connect with different topics on here it would make it excellent, to me at least. I guess it might come down to why you use different social media.
Article by Rest of the World on how popular #Threads is for young protesters in #Taiwan
"freshly created political communities could be fragile as Meta promises to reduce the amount of political content users can see. Facebook began limiting political content in 2021, and Meta said this year that Instagram and Threads would also stop recommending political content, unless it came from accounts users were following."
Meanwhile, one of my favourite features of #Mastodon: "Hide boosts from XY" (behind the 3 dots of a profile). I had to do it with people who boost every single post of crazy 60-posts-threads.
If you want to boost threads, it's enough to boost the first post! Or only post No 35. If they are numbered or signed with🧵 we can look for the rest ourselves! Please don't flood timelines by boosting every single post!
"Meta's chief product officer, Chris Cox, told Bloomberg's Tech Summit on Thursday that it uses publicly available photos and text from the platforms to train its text-to-image generator model"
Just checked a few other instances, and wondering why so many are blocking #threads. That's like having your email provider block Gmail, and a very weird thing to do in my opinion. Is it just fear/uncertainity/not understanding how Mastodon/ActivityPub works?
Probé a seguir a alguien de #Threads pero tienen la costumbre tuitera de citar con RT otras publicaciones sin decir ni media palabra de qué coño es lo que enlazan.
Tener la línea de tiempo llena de enlaces sin contexto no es lo que me gusta de usar esto, y según me pareció entender Threads tiene comunicación unidireccional con el #fediverso por lo que una conversación sería imposible. Y no creo que haya nadie ahí a quien tener exclusivamente como fuente de información.
Así que bye, Threads. 👋
The group diligently observes the collective dissent voiced by numerous Meta employees, encompassing #Facebook, #Instagram, WhatsApp, #Messenger, and #Threads, regarding the Meta #company's complicity in the #genocidal war against the #Gaza Strip, its endorsement of the Israeli occupation, and its fueling of the "Lavender" #artificialintelligence system used by the Israeli military to kill #Palestinian individuals within the Gaza enclave.